The density conjecture for activated random walk
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| author | Hoffman, Christopher Johnson, Tobias Junge, Matthew |
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| contents | Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld developed their theory of self-organized criticality in the late 1980s to explain why many real-life processes exhibit signs of critical behavior despite the absence of a tuning parameter. A decade later, Dickman, Muñoz, Vespignani, and Zapperi explained self-organized criticality as an external force pushing a hidden parameter toward the critical value of a traditional absorbing-state phase transition. As evidence, they observed empirically that for various sandpile models, the particle density in a finite box under driven-dissipative dynamics converges to the critical density of an infinite-volume version of the model. We give the first proof of this well-known density conjecture in any setting by establishing it for activated random walk in one dimension. We prove that two other natural versions of the model have the same critical value, further establishing activated random walk as a universal model of self-organized criticality. |
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| spellingShingle | The density conjecture for activated random walk Hoffman, Christopher Johnson, Tobias Junge, Matthew Probability Mathematical Physics 60K35, 82C22 Bak, Tang, and Wiesenfeld developed their theory of self-organized criticality in the late 1980s to explain why many real-life processes exhibit signs of critical behavior despite the absence of a tuning parameter. A decade later, Dickman, Muñoz, Vespignani, and Zapperi explained self-organized criticality as an external force pushing a hidden parameter toward the critical value of a traditional absorbing-state phase transition. As evidence, they observed empirically that for various sandpile models, the particle density in a finite box under driven-dissipative dynamics converges to the critical density of an infinite-volume version of the model. We give the first proof of this well-known density conjecture in any setting by establishing it for activated random walk in one dimension. We prove that two other natural versions of the model have the same critical value, further establishing activated random walk as a universal model of self-organized criticality. |
| title | The density conjecture for activated random walk |
| topic | Probability Mathematical Physics 60K35, 82C22 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01731 |